| [eclipselink-dev] Proposed changes to automated build - use of JDK 6 |
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As part of my work for bug
239832 to add DBWS to the automated build, I discovered that the EclipseLink build environment is missing some things that were previously available in ADE. The Ant extension library 'ant-contrib' has a custom task <PropertyRegex> that performs regular-_expression_ manipulations on Ant ${properties}. However, Product Management does not want our build process to depend upon custom Ant tasks written by a third-party or ourselves. I tried a number of of ways to solve the problem and discussed this with Eric and it turns out that he has a related issue - the built-in Ant logger/listener is not producing the output Eric requires for the automated build notifications. A custom Ant logger task would solve this, but ... After some investigation, we discovered that JDK 6 has a built-in _javascript_ interpreter: no third-party or custom code is required. When used in conjunction with Ant's <scriptdef> task, I was able to successfully build and test DBWS, and Eric will be able to create a scripted solution to his logger/listener problem. All <javac> targets would specify that Java5 bytecodes are to be produced, so we are not 'abandoning' existing Java5 customers. We have discussed this with Peter and he sees no problems with this ... any issues/questions from the rest of the Dev community? --
 Mike Norman | Principal Software Designer | 613.288.4638 Oracle Server Technologies | EclipseLink Product 45 O'Connor Street, Suite 400 | Ottawa, ON K1P 1A4 | (fax) 613.238.2818 |